A femous way to say it!

Working with music in a globalized context, featuring women from different cultures and genres is a challenge. femous invents innovative formats, creates special music-formations, opens new cooperations with other collectives and single artists…Our aim is to bring female issues through music to a broader public, more details to the projects are to be found on femfacts.

the femous orchestra collective @ Wir sind Wien

femous: 360° women in music

the empowerment agency!

femous is an Austrian based initiative, aiming to make women in music visible. Promoting female work by facilitating festival appearances, enabling international artistic collaborations, developing media cooperation’s and boosting female presence through web 2.0 promotion is part of the femous strategy.

femous works on curatorship cooperation’s with festivals and offers music consultancy for institutions and promoters. Various promotion-, consulting- and networking services for female artists and managers, including professionalizing workshops and cultural consultancy services, are also part of the femous biz.

Femous – platform for famous female culture / be part of it!

a short history

Founded in 2011, in occasion of the centenary of the international women’s day, femous presented throughout Austria more than 100 cultural events from march to september 2011. Femous also created an intercultural female musicians pool – the femous orchestra.

2011 highlights were certainly the vibrant one-day-only festival „a femous centenary night “in march, the artistic co-operations of the femous orchestra with Donaufestival and Ars Electronica, the networking with outstanding festivals like Jazzfest Wien, PopFest or the associated curatorship of “Wir sind Wien”. The inauguration of the femous youth award fm4/planet.tt stage at the Viennese Donauinselfest is a step into the future.

What we do

femous shows that outstanding women are no longer an exception. Based on a concept of active cultural diversity, femous is working on a huge network that encompasses the wide range of female creativity, focusing on global advanced pop, jazz, world music, electronic sound art or DJ culture. femous addresses to people of any sex - female, male and transgender-, any ethnic and social background, and any age and thus shapes social sculptures through the cultural work of women.

As immediately recognizable seal of quality, femous highlights outstanding female acts by including them in the femous web-platform. femous makes the diversity of female creative work visible through intensive PR, web 2.0 promotion, media cooperation’s and active networking.

Who’s behind

femous is a project by Silvia Jura, Susi Rogenhofer and Célia Mara and is promoted through the cultural association Globalista: connecting differences. Jura, Rogenhofer and Mara are long time music professionals and bring in their personal networks.

100 years: centenary of international women’s day 2011 100 dates: famous female culture from March to September 2011

Vienna 2011 – the centenary of the International Women’s Day

March 19th, 1911: Thousands of women in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and the USA were marching in the streets demanding their rights. The first international women’s day was born.

1911: The International Women's Day (IWD) was first honored the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on March 19th. It’s centenary is a good occasion for gender balance: whether in the global pop culture or in the contemporary music scene, whether at the interfaces with the visual arts, film, science, and literature – femous highlights the diversity in female creativity.

100 femous dates

Together with different festivals and venues all over Austria, femous offers a selection of outstanding female culture - 100 dates with great female artists. Between March and September 2011, Austria turns it self femous!

One program

Female artistic diversity is celebrated with a portfolio of contemporary music, jazz, blues, world music, electronics, classics, advanced pop and selected events at the intersections of dance, performance, visual arts, literature and film.

a femous message: be female + famous!

femous shows that outstanding women are no longer an exception.

As immediately recognizable seal of quality, femous highlights outstanding female acts. It provides a unique line of communication for 100 events – and makes the diversity of female creative work extremely visible.

femous connects female culture

It’s easy – no matter what way of communication is chosen, femous connects the interests of public, promoters, artists and sponsors… and makes female artists and their supporters visible. Business partner, sponsors and interest groups work together… Simply femous!

the femous orchestra

Vienna’s great female musicians and singers joined to form an orchestra - Performing together a repertoire out of women working songs. Where Jazz, Electronics, World music & performance meet. A project in cooperation with IG World music Austria